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I remember our friend Suvorov making much the same point about Russian political leadership, whether it was the Tsars or the Bolsheviks or Stalin, and now Putin continuing a Russian tradition of ego-dominated autocrats. Imagine what Russia could have been like today if instead of Putin someone...

It's hard not to get the impression from watching these Russian state tv broadcasts that even if Russia loses this war and is eventually driven out of Ukraine (looking increasingly likely), either Putin will keep his grip on power or he will be replaced by another hardliner. Russia has become...

Now that the CCP is reducing the EV subsidies sales are dropping, and by the end of the year they will be gone competely. Weak domestic demand and low quality vehicles that are not competitive in international markets will see the China EV bubble deflate.

There is a good reason Warren Buffet is reducing Berkshire Hathaways stake in BYD. This video explains how Yangtze Motors went bankrupt and the bubble that the subsidies created. So the Chinese EV companies were making more money from the subsidies than actual sales, prompting them to...

Spiderman no way home managed over $1.9 billion with no China release too. It's the new normal now, studios aren't willing now to compromise their artistry to censor films for the CCP for 25% of a box office gross that is often under reported. Add to this the fact that even with a China friendly...

Yeah I'm aware of that fact, and I was agreeing with you about the limited need for water cooling. I'm a gamer and a tinkerer though, water cooling is part of the enjoyment I get building, customizing and overclocking my rig. It's much harder to get a stable build overclocking with air cooling...

Obviously it's not necesary for laptops, it's only really necesary on high end overclocked PCs. At the extreme end of overclocking, the EVGA lead engineer Kingpin designs his high end range of Nvidia cards for liquid nitrogen cooling. He usually leads the field in overclocked benchmarking and...

Raw clock speed doesn't tell the whole story, but Intel seems to be coming back at AMD. Interesting that they are releasing more specs on Sept 27, the same day that the new AMD Zen 4 CPUs launch. And what kind of cooling are they using to OC from 6ghz to 8ghz?

That reliability is the result of the worlds best quality management system. Toyota is a world leader in innovation, it is built in at every level in every area of the company through the Kaizen principal.

Yeah the word visionary is used a lot in business strategy, I tend to avoid it myself. I kept on being told that was I was trying to do was impossible, but I would eventually prove everybody wrong (including myself at times). My only guide really was my intuition, making a leap into the unknown...

I read Peter Thiels book zero to one a couple of years ago, its a book that has influenced me a great deal. He talks about the fact that as a venture capitalist and tech entrepreneur he has not observed any common approach to innovation in business, he is often asked what the formula for success...

I think there is more than just the appearance of innovation at play too, the same system that incentivizes high quantity low quality patent applications in China probably encourages inventors to make false claims. Subsidies, investment in start-ups, non-monetary rewards like promotions in...

Semantics seems to be the basis for the CCP making all kinds of dubious claims of inventing things that had already been invented, or rewriting history to make claims of inventing things far earlier. The clear intention of this trend, which started in 2014 shortly after Xi took over, is to...

Let us not give credit to the modern Chinese era of innovation and discovery. In the tradition of the great inventions of ancient China; the Compass, Gunpowder, Papermaking and Printing, we are now truly in a new golden age of China scientific research. Behold, the four great modern China...

The GPU chips in Nvidia and AMDs PC cards are unaffected by the new licensing restrictions, its the high end server AI chips that are being restricted.

You misunderstood my post. The history of Chinese inventions is well known, I simply challenge your assertion that 'A lot of great inventions normally thought of as Western have the root from China'. Everybody knows who invented paper, gunpowder, the compass etc. So what is 'a lot'? You place...

Yeah I agree, Russia is burning through more than 12b a month funding the war effort and meeting the 2% budget deficit, 12b per month is just a quick calculation of the 75b they have depleted their reserves by in the 6 months.

And their net revenues from oil and gas are down due to the high ruble and heavy discounting to China and India. Oil prices are also falling, and without Western Europe to sell their oil and gas to there are no viable alternative and accessible markets. China and India will also reach their...

Russia has spent about 75b of its reserves since the war started, which are now down to 235b. As the sanctions really start to hit and Western Europe gradually shifts its suppliers of oil and gas, the hole in the Russian state budget will continue to grow. So the rate at which they deplete their...

The industrial age and the industrial revolution, starting around 1780 in Great Britain and later spreading to continental europe and north america, was the greatest period of technological advancement in human history. And it was driven principally by the West-advancements in automation...